Your Business Looks Ready to Sell. But Is It Actually Prepared?
Most business owners spend decades building something and then only months trying to sell it. That gap is where value disappears, deals fall apart, and sellers walk away with regret. Tim Vorhoff, founding partner of CreoValo and author of Exit Right: How to Sell Your Company, joined Elizabeth Ledoux on the Business Transition Roadmap podcast […]
Seller’s Regret Is Preventable: How to Prepare for the Transaction of a Lifetime
Episode Description: Tim Vorhoff is the founding partner of Creo Vallo and author of Exit Right: How to Sell Your Company. He spent years at Evercore, one of the world’s top investment banks, before launching his own firm to help mid-market and family-run business owners prepare for and execute an external sale. In this conversation, Tim and […]
How to Choose a Business Transition Consulting Firm When Your Company Is Worth $10 Million or More
When a business crosses the $10 million mark, everything about transition gets more complex. More stakeholders. More tax implications. More at risk if the process goes sideways. And yet, the thing that causes most transitions to fail at this level is the same thing that causes them to fail at every level: the people involved […]
Exit Planning vs. Business Transition: Why the Technical Plan Alone Will Not Get You There
Your attorney has a plan. Your CPA has a plan. Your financial advisor has a plan. But do you have one? Not a tax strategy or an estate document. A plan for the people. The conversations. The relationships that will either hold your family together through this process or quietly fall apart while everyone focuses […]
Business Governance: The Learning Platform Your Successor Actually Needs
If you run a small business and someone brings up the word “governance,” your first instinct is probably to change the subject. It sounds corporate. It sounds slow. And if you have been making every decision yourself for the last 10 or 20 years, it sounds like someone wants to put handcuffs on you. I […]
Why Business Governance Is the Learning Platform Your Successor Actually Needs
Episode Description: Elizabeth Ledoux has spent 30 years guiding business owners through transitions — and in this solo episode, she gets personal about one of the most misunderstood tools in her toolkit: business governance. Most owners hear “board of directors” and immediately think bureaucracy, slowdowns, and handcuffs. Elizabeth breaks down why the opposite is true — that governance […]
Why the Most Expensive Mistake in Business Transition Has Nothing to Do with Your Attorney
If you are in the middle of planning a business transition, or even just starting to think about one, chances are someone has already told you to call your attorney. Get the entities set up. Talk to your CPA about the tax implications. Put together an estate plan before a sale or a transition. That […]
When the Smartest Business Builder in the Room Can’t Plan Their Own Next Chapter
There is a particular kind of stuck that only shows up in people who have built something significant. They are decisive in business. They can read a market, manage a crisis, and make a hundred calls a day without flinching. But ask them to sit down and plan what comes after the business, and everything […]
Founder Paralysis: Why Letting Go Feels Impossible and How to Move Forward with Purpose
Episode Description: In this conversation, Elizabeth sits down with Dennis Passis, founder, mediator, and author of Founder Paralysis, to unpack one of the most overlooked challenges in business transition: why founders struggle to let go. Drawing on decades of experience in family business and conflict mediation, Dennis explores the emotional, psychological, and identity-driven barriers that keep founders stuck. Together, […]